Rod Blagojevich Wants Judge To Play All FBI Recordings, According To Motion Filed Monday

CHICAGO — Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is asking a judge to let him play around 100 excerpts of secret FBI recordings at his corruption retrial.

A defense motion filed Monday claims the tapes from before Blagojevich's 2008 arrest show he tried to cut a legal political deal to name Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat.

Blagojevich will face a retrial in April on 23 charges, including allegations he sought to sell or trade an appointment to Obama's seat. At his first trial, jurors deadlocked on all but one count of lying to the FBI.

The new motion contends Blagojevich's multiple references to Madigan counter government assertions that talk of a Madigan deal was merely a ruse to obscure bids by Blagojevich to profit personally.

Comments

[Michael Dayne]

10:49 AM on 02/15/2011

Funny how irrelevant this guy has become after being in the media almost daily most of last year. Just shows to go ya, if you see the same clown act too many times, it gets stale.

[crookedcountyillinois]

10:04 AM on 02/15/2011

Lisa Madigan has a much more important job as Attorney General: looking the other way while her "daddy," Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, robs Illinois taxpayers blind.

[mamala4]

08:00 PM on 02/14/2011

Thanks to Blago this state handed President Obama's seat to Kirk....thanks Blago.

[shthar]

02:22 PM on 02/14/2011

If they're entered as evidence, the jury has to hear em.

[naschkatze]

04:38 PM on 02/14/2011

Yes, but the prosecution does not want them entered as evidence and this very same judge sided with the prosecution in the first trial.

[Paul Conrad]

11:44 AM on 02/14/2011

That's OK Rod. Madigan will just have to take the seat from Kirk when he's done embarrassing the people of Illinois in six years.

[mamala4]

11:56 AM on 02/14/2011

When Kirk said he could not longer support a climate change bill due to Al Gore's personal life, I spit my coffee all over the table....could this guy be any more pathetic?

[Paul Conrad]

12:20 PM on 02/14/2011

Especially from a guy like Kirk who has had his own personal life targeted by opponents.